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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 De·fer·ves·cence De·fer·ves·cency n.
 1. A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.
    A defervescency in holy actions.   --Jer. Taylor.
 2. Med. The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.
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